HGS Field Trips

The HGS Field Trips Committee organizes both annual and one-time field trips to geological sites of interest.

-HGS has organized Grand Canyon fields trips in 2009, 2011 and most recently in 2012. The group meets in Las Vegas Nevada and travels by van to the headwaters of the Grand Canyon. Then they float down the Colorado River for 5 days of adventure before taking a helicopter out of the remote areas of the Canyon.

 

Photos from the Grand Canyon Field Trip in July 2012

HGS 2012 Grand Canyon field trip

Field Trip Leader and past HGS President Steve Earle.

 

-The Stone City Bluff is a special location on the Texas Gulf Coast Plain. It is the best of relatively few places where marine rocks of Paleogene age are exposed and available for public access. This access provides a window into Middle Eocene rocks that were deposited in the Gulf of Mexico approximately 41.8 million years ago. Check out the Study Guide here.